Nica
Legal name: National Interscholastic Cycling Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 134234305
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Orinda, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5105245464
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,205,385
- Expenses
- $10,311,596
- Assets
- $4,612,950
- Liabilities
- $369,774
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMANDA CAREY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- AMANDA CAREY (PRESIDENT): $198,778 total reported compensation
- LAUREN HAUGHEY (CFO): $164,721 total reported compensation
- MELISSA DAVIES (VP PROGRAMS): $122,983 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
NICA helps youth develop strength, resilience, and character, while pedaling with a supportive and inclusive community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Nica continued to expand and develop its role as the national governing body for interscholastic mountain biking, adventure and coach licensing programs using materials and methods developed since 2003. Nica operated associated leagues in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and with development stage leagues for future years with formative strategies in other states. League materials and methods are refined each year, in order that we create the national standard of best practice in the areas of safety, interscholastic cycling, and provides leadership, governance and program support to promote the development of leagues throughout the USA.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.95 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 83.9% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $199K · 17 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.